Featured in GV Next: The Autism Education Center's work on promoting the placement of students with autism into the general classroom setting to the greatest extent possible has dovetailed with a renewed Michigan Department of Education focus on the same concept.

That work is just one of the efforts to highlight for the center during this Autism Acceptance Month, according to center staff members. They are also enhancing their efforts to emphasize the importance of inclusion for autistic students and their families, and have made inclusion the focus of their May 1 annual conference in East Lansing.